My understanding of injecting money in education is that it's proven to be extremely ineffective at improving outcomes.

Schools just hire more administrators and build nicer gyms.

kevin_thibedeau 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You have to wait 20 years for the returns to society. Public education was enormously successful when it was introduced in the 19th century. There's just no profit in waiting for second order effects to kick in.

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dataviz1000 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

So was Rural Free Delivery. Farmers being able to communicate was a massive boon. There is a channel for farmers called RFD tv. They completely scrubbed the free provided by the government part after private equity bought the tv channel targeting farmers. Then they got Imus in the Morning so farmers listed to Imus, Rush, Hannity, and orielly forgetting the government helps them.

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rayiner 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Diminishing returns. Per-student education spending has been going up since 1990 except a dip during the 2008 recession. Adjusting for inflations it’s now double what it was 30 years ago.

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kevin_thibedeau an hour ago | parent [-]

The population of students is shrinking and there is (unnecessarily) growing overhead that has to be paid for.

	▲	rayiner an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The people in charge of the schools don’t seem to think it’s unnecessary overhead?

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saulpw 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well yes, you have to spend the money wisely. How could we construct a system so that we have 2x as many teachers (thereby halving the classroom size)? That would have a lot of good second-order effects beyond test scores.

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rayiner an hour ago | parent [-]

So why has per-capita student spending doubled since 1990 (adjusted for inflation) without any increase in test scores? Why haven’t we been spending the money wisely?

Student to teacher ratios have continuously decreased and are about half of what they were in 1960. Data on the results is mixed: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/class-size-what-research-...

	▲	rixed an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Because we have also increased the spending in "un-education" (entertainment, social media, college sport...) ? What's your own theory ?

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watutalkinbout an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe don't just 'inject' it.

Maybe use it to increase outcomes.

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kjkjadksj 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What about into research grants?

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